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dear Entertainment Weekly ( @EW )

ctrlaltdelete83:

it makes me sad that i haven’t gotten the latest issue, AGAIN. i requested a replacement but i am afraid you will think that i am scamming you because it’s like the 5th time in the last few months i haven’t gotten my magazine. i assure you i am not.

your loyal reader,

Amy

p.s. i know canada post can be wonky sometimes so i don’t blame you…i just get sad when i open my mailbox and it’s empty on monday afternoons…

Dear Amy,

Sorry to hear that you’ve been having magazine delivery issues. We understand that the Canadian postal service might be going on strike, which could be a factor here. (Though the National Post doesn’t think such a strike would be a big deal, so who knows? We are Canada-illiterate, unless you’re talking about Degrassi. Anyway.)

In case you didn’t know this already, you can contact Customer Service at service@ew.customersvc.com with any and all subscription-related complaints. You should also know, though, that the last magazine released was a double issue, so there was no new issue last week. Things will be back to normal this Friday.

Thanks for reading!

Love,

Entertainment Weekly

Hi,
first of all,nice job running this Tumblr.
my question is: why did the Cougar Town and 90210 recaps stop in the middle of the season? They were so good:(
Thanks for the answer in advance!

person-of-interest

Thanks for the compliment! As for your question:

1. We didn’t stop recapping Cougar Town—the write-ups just migrated from the TV Recaps area of the site to PopWatch (confusing, I know). Check ‘em out here.

2. EW writers are all crazily overcommitted, so every now and then, we have to take stock of what we’re recapping and decide whether the number of people reading and responding to those recaps justifies the time and energy we spend writing them. Our 90210 write-ups, unfortunately, didn’t make the cut.

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Yes, some crossed wires meant that the finale didn’t get recapped. I’m partially to blame, so I apologize for the oversight. But isn’t all the love Parks and Rec has been getting from the site lately decent consolation?

Yes, some crossed wires meant that the finale didn’t get recapped. I’m partially to blame, so I apologize for the oversight. But isn’t all the love Parks and Rec has been getting from the site lately decent consolation?

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Actually, I guess that makes sense.

Actually, I guess that makes sense.

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Hoda and Kathie Lee are in our conference room right now, filming a Today segment with EW Managing Editor Jess Cagle and a table of staffers. There is also, no joke, a dude standing by with bottle of wine.

Hoda and Kathie Lee are in our conference room right now, filming a Today segment with EW Managing Editor Jess Cagle and a table of staffers. There is also, no joke, a dude standing by with bottle of wine.

Tell us about yourself.

Anonymous

I’ve done this a few times already, but okay! My name’s Hillary. I graduated college a year ago and have been working at EW since last December. My interests include NBC Thursday shows, nostalgia, and horrible movies, especially Jim Carrey’s seminal masterpiece The Number 23. If you’d like to see what I’m like when I’m off the clock, feel free to check out my Tumblr or my Twitter.

Not to be weird or anything, but I was just wondering who ran the Entertainment Weekly blog? Because I know Hilary Weston does a lot of the Blackbook blog, and I was just wondering who's job this was. Because we tend to "chat" occasionally, and I'd just like to know who I'm talking to.

That last part isn't meant to sound rude.

joeydeangelis

Oh, you don’t sound weird or rude at all! Oddly enough, my name also happens to be Hillary (but with two Ls—Clinton, not Duff). I’m EW.com’s intern-slash-Tumblr-monkey. If you’d like to get an even deeper peek into my twisted mind, you can check out my personal Tumblr or my brand spanking new Twitter (yes, I held out this long).

“This is not a real story but only dummy text so quit reading it you dummy and get back to work and just thank God this isn’t Latin because when we used to use the Latin it was actually a bunch of jokes about you and your wacky family, but only those of us who studied Latin were privy to the humor but now we use this cuz it gives more accurate word counts, but this is not a real story.”

This is what EW uses as its dummy text—none of that “lorem ipsum dolor” crap.

I know you guys have resident writers, but how do you guys feel about freelancers?

cee-ratchet

Freelancers often contribute to EW and EW.com, so we feel pretty good about them. What, you thought we were some kind of cultish cabal that regularly stones outsiders and stashes the bodies in our storage closets, hiding them behind promotional Megamind foam heads and stacks of old screeners for failed CW reality shows?

Oh dear, I’ve said too much.

Revisiting an old NYTimes article about the new wave of librarians where one of the people interviewed was starting a job at the EW library and being an archivist myself, I always wondered - what is the library and archive collection at EW like? Every issue in tact I imagine for future preservation and research. Other items that employees go to for research? What's the team who mans it like?

Thanks!
Meg

recallnumbers

I turned to fearless librarian Sean O’Heir to get the answers to your questions:

Hi Meg,

I’m EW’s librarian, Sean O’Heir. I started working at EW as a library assistant in 1993. (I remember when Dave Karger was an intern.) I help the writers and reporters with research questions, like “When did The Muppet Show with Elton John singing ‘Crocodile Rock’ originally air?” (Answer: 2/6/1978 in New York). Sometimes the questions have clear answers; sometimes I get needle-in-a-haystack questions, like those related to a ‘groovy” list I’m currently helping Karen Valby with.

I also manage and maintain a physical collection that consists of a couple thousand DVDs, 3000 books, thousands of research folders, and several thousand magazines and newspapers. Additionally, I maintain an in-house website that is basically a big ‘ol EW archive with tons of lists.

As for what I’m like: I just this week finished reading Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy and I loved The Hunger Games. Korean cinema is my new thing and I’m currently half-way through Ji-woon Kim’s “The Good, The Bad, and The Weird.” I love old Prince records and I think LCD Soundsystem doing “I Can Change” on Jools Holland is sublime.

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